Company Overview

Shell Retail and Convenience Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell Oil Products US (Shell), recently acquired certain company-owned fuel and convenience retail sites from the Landmark group of companies. The acquisition also includes supply agreements for the independently operated fuel and convenience sites. Within SRCO, these assets will be in Texas Petroleum Group (TPG).

Building on the strength of its existing networks, TPG brings Shell closer to its customers and enhances Shells market presence by growing its mobility footprint in a key region in the U.S., which is one of the largest fuels and convenience retail markets in the world. Also, with this acquisition, Shell is advancing its Powering Progress strategy in three ways: by growing its retail footprint in a core market, by providing opportunities to offer customers expanded fueling options (including electric vehicle charging, hydrogen, biofuels, and lower-carbon premium fuels) and by allowing for the growth of non-fuel sales through an enhanced.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

The Pricebook Analyst manages databases for the Retail Convenience Stores, maintaining and adding to items, costs, and retails for inventory management purposes. The Price Book Analyst is also responsible to deliver accurate product set-up, price changes and in-store promotions using back office and software applications for the operation of Retail Convenience Stores. The Price Book Analyst troubleshoot different issues, help drive operational efficiencies, and resolve complex promotional schemes and accounting and store product master file discrepancy issues affecting the integrity of the price book implementation.

The Pricebook Analyst will file and maintain all price book material and records and communicate applicable changes to Shell company owned locations. Daily interaction with vendors, company team members including but not limited to store management, merchandising, auditing, finance, and operational accounting is expected. The Price Book Administrator is the ultimate expert authority in the execution of Shell category hierarchy and plays a fundamental role in the effective operation of Shell company owned convenience stores.

Job Duties:

• Maintain and control the integrity of the price book management process: Provide assurance to the data management standard and accuracy of the data in the price book
• Maintain integrity of price book data by the back-office provider (PDI/Envoy)
• Manipulate data to maintain accuracy based upon specific direction of category management and/or commercial team lead.
• Follow a standard National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) structure for data management and adherence.
• Ensure that no deviations occur during the normal price book maintenance activity.
• Product classification: Maintain / Execute changes in the product classification per NACS category definitions.
• Advise the finance team about changes in the NACS market standard product classification to ensure correct mapping to financial hierarchy for accounting controls.
• Product addition and deletion: Activate and deactivate products from the Product Master File based on business performance, analytics output, and recommendations from the category management team Frequency, twice a year as part of range review processes.
• Tax changes Lead application of tax schedules by category / sub-category / product - maintain evidence of compliance for audit purposes Review changes per flat file or automated system import update provided by third-party tax compliance service provider.
• Apply register-configured tax rates, on a department level, to all transactions; based on tax rates and data provided by third-party tax compliance service provider.
• Troubleshooting events - Resolve instances where issues as scanning level correlate to the PMF.
• Input product promotions - Schedule promotional events into the BOS and monitor system execution.
• Monitor execution accuracy of consumer-packaged goods and promotional events. Track and report promotional product data complementary with and adjacent to an identified loyalty program provider.
• Price changes: Execute price changes in the system and establish pricing zones as required.
• Mass Cost / Price change updates: Execution of supplier of company led, largescale price changes applicable to most or the entire product assortment. Most common across sensitive categories (e.g. Tobacco and Alcohol).
• Data exchange (e.g., electronic data interchange - EDI): Provide and monitor accuracy of data transfers / export to third party partners. Facilitate initial set up, periodic additions and configuration of back-office system.
• Promotion billing and reimbursement - Management of promotional rebates and supplier rebates.
• Set-up file, communicate to stores and monitor execution of batch printing of shelf labels at company set frequency or remerchandising events.
• Maintenance product master file data controls relative to compliance for audit purposes.
• Provide assurance to price book data from individual retail locations.
• Facilitate export of data and accuracy validation to partner vendors.
• Monitory storing / managing of data files per required standards.

Skills Required:

• Bachelors degree in business, accounting or retailing science is required
• 4 years related experience is required with at least 2 years in a leading price book management supervisory role is preferred
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong proficiency knowledge of C-Store Office and PDI/Envoy Price Book preferred
• Firsthand retail store operations as well as sound knowledge of Convenience Retail business processes is a must.
• Understanding of retail fundamentals of buying, assorting, placement, merchandising and retail operational processes is a significant advantage to the applicant.
• Analytical skills with understanding of 4Ps decision drivers and retail economics.
• Ability to manage performance in a virtual world
• Stakeholder management to build strong network to ensure execution and senior level alignment